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Author Topic: Atheling's Early Byzantines- Made the Cover of "Slingshot"- Page 31. 23-04-2023  (Read 62651 times)

Offline Wellington

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Thanks Wellington.

Your lovely Sassanids would make very worthy opponents.  :)

Thanks! In the good old time of the Warhammer Historical Weekends we might have played ...
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Excellent  8)

Thanks! In the good old time of the Warhammer Historical Weekends we might have played ...

I miss those  :?
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That is an impressive pile of impeccably painted lead. It takes commitment to see a project like that through to an exacting standard. Well done Darrell  8)

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That really is an amazingly beautiful army :-*
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Thank you guys.  8)

A beautifully executed project from start to finish  ❤

Cheers Gareth. More Goths (well, same Goths but varnished based!) on the way and some Steppe Nomad allies/enemies ASAP. :)

That is an impressive pile of impeccably painted lead. It takes commitment to see a project like that through to an exacting standard. Well done Darrell  8)

Thanks Richard. I think the gradual release of shiny stuff from Keith at Aventine has been one of the keys- a case of "gotta have that" mixed in with a bit of bloody mindedness. I'm actually still only about halfway through!  o_o
« Last Edit: July 13, 2021, 01:22:51 PM by Atheling »

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Hello,

Always a superb painting !!! A pleasure for the eyes.... Thanks !!!

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Hello,

Always a superb painting !!! A pleasure for the eyes.... Thanks !!!

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Thanks for the kind words Nikkobourges :)

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Re: Atheling's Early Byzantines- Steppe Nomads- Page 23 - UPDATE 15/07/21
« Reply #337 on: July 15, 2021, 06:27:25 AM »


It has been a while since I managed to find the time to post anything new. So, in the absence of any new posts  over the next few days I will be posting a small series of posts covering what I have been working on ranging from the Italian Wars and the Wars of Justinian and Narses etc.

The latest painting has featured Aventine Miniatures Steppe Nomads (most of the range is being remoulded by Keith at Aventine). I have enjoyed painting these immensely. In an effort to save time and instead of the basecoat, drybrush then a few washes that I have resorted to use on some horse flesh of late, I have jumped back into "Early Byzantine" mode and spent a decent amount of time on painting different types of coats. I realise that most of the ponies 5-6th Century Steppe Nomads would have had access too would not have had such a variation of colour and patterns on their mounts but I simply could not resists. There is always room for artistic license right? The castings, although a little fiddly to put together (I know Keith is fixing this, thus the remoulding) are sublime and easily the best Steppe Cavalry I have ever painted up. They really were a joy.

All the images are pre varnish so will have some variation in the flatness of the paint. This is a result using paints from different manufacturers such as Vallejo - usually quite flat, Andrea - always consistently flat, Foundry - not nearly as reliably flat.









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Re: Atheling's Early Byzantines- Steppe Nomads- Page 23 - UPDATE 15/07/21
« Reply #338 on: July 15, 2021, 07:01:13 AM »
Gorgeous, makes me want to break out my Foundry Huns for some paint…keep the inspiration coming please chap

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Re: Atheling's Early Byzantines- Steppe Nomads- Page 23 - UPDATE 15/07/21
« Reply #339 on: July 15, 2021, 07:35:11 AM »
Nice! Aventine is one of my favourites for ancients!
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Re: Atheling's Early Byzantines- Steppe Nomads- Page 23 - UPDATE 15/07/21
« Reply #340 on: July 15, 2021, 08:09:22 AM »
Thanks guys.

Roo, you should definitely pull out those Foundry Huns and give them a lick of paint. They stand out as great mini's even up to this day  8)

Here's some more or less actual size pics on the same mini's to give an idea of the lavish detail on the Aventine sculpts:
« Last Edit: July 15, 2021, 08:15:13 AM by Atheling »

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Re: Atheling's Early Byzantines- Steppe Nomads- Page 23 - UPDATE 15/07/21
« Reply #341 on: July 15, 2021, 03:02:53 PM »
Very nice!

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Re: Atheling's Early Byzantines- Steppe Nomads- Page 23 - UPDATE 15/07/21
« Reply #342 on: July 15, 2021, 07:24:27 PM »
Thanks you Tonhel  :)

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Re: Atheling's Early Byzantines- Steppe Nomads- Page 23 - UPDATE 15/07/21
« Reply #343 on: July 16, 2021, 06:03:59 AM »
Drop dead gorgeous mate

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Re: Atheling's Early Byzantines- Steppe Nomads- Page 23 - UPDATE 15/07/21
« Reply #344 on: July 16, 2021, 11:58:19 AM »
Drop dead gorgeous mate

Thanks for the goodly words of encouragement Gareth :)

 

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